Guided Tours at Dortmunder U

Free guided tours free guided tours take approx. 45 min and are included in the entry fee. No pre-booking required.

free public tour each sunday – 3. floor at Dortmunder U

free after-work tour each thursday – 3. floor at Dortmunder U

4 pm

6 pm

Family tour On the 1st Sunday of each month there is a fun family tour for all ages. Young visitors can also participate in a paper chase during opening hours to get to know the exhibition in a playful way. (All family activities are in German language only.)

2 pm

Guided group tours (up to 25 persons, available in German, English and in sign language)

To book a guided tour we kindly ask you to fill in the required data in the online form on the exhibition page or simply call or email us.info(a)hmkv.de / ++49 231 496642-0. The tours take approx. 45 min. Please book 7 days in advance.

The exhibition Proto Anime Cut presents original drawings of the most important directors and illustrators of Japanese animated films.

The action-packed hero stories and the visionary science fiction of Japanese Anime are set in impressive worlds that are constructed in painstaking detail. Looking at the creative processes, the filmmakers appear as architectural dreamers who operate with virtuosity at the borders of credibility, fiction and utopia. The exhibition focuses on the development of these arenas of action and narrative scenarios. Numerous background paintings, storyboards, drafts, sources of inspiration and film excerpts provide insight into the working methods of the most successful animation artists of the last two decades. Proto Anime Cut presents them for the first time in Europe.

The presented artists have played key roles in the development of Anime. By cooperating closely in different production studios in Tokyo they gave their distinctive signatures to many films and developed the prototypical Anime style.

Guided tours:
Thursdays at 6 pm (After-Work), Sundays at 4 pm
HMKV at the Dortmunder U, 3rd floor (guided tours are included in the admission)

Film programme:
Special screening on July 9, 2011 from 6 pm in the framework of the ExtraSchicht 2011 at the RWE Forum I Cinema at the Dortmunder U featuring films by the Japanese animation studio Studio 4°C.
Film screenings from 10 September until 2 October (from Thu - Sun) in the framework of the Japan Media Arts Festival (JMAF) at the RWE Forum I Kino at the Dortmunder U.

October 2011

ARTWORKS GALLERY

Published as one of five short films in Genius Party Beyond (2009), Studio 4°C

Dimension Bomb is a synthesis of Koji Morimoto's visual vocabulary. Almost all elements
of the film can also be found in other sequences and short clips of his work.
Here they are developed, lavishly animated and embellished. The music by Juno
Reactor
plays a key role here, as in other Morimoto films. The plot unfolds through
associations, transformations, and in the constant motion of the image. Dimension
Bomb is animated in the true sense of the word.

EXTRA is a music video for Ken Ishii’s single EXTRA from his album Jelly Tones (R & S
Records, 1995). In 1996, the clip was chosen as MTVs ‘Dance Video of the Year’.
Koji Morimoto became known worldwide and sparked a huge international demand
for Japanese animation films especially in the music and advertising industry. Morimoto
directed the entire artistic production of this short, drawing image boards, storyboards,
layout, key-frame animation and the background himself. Clearly apparent in
the film is his fondness for the small side streets and alleyways of his neighbourhood,
Kichijoji, in Tokyo, which he often uses as a motif in later works.